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author | Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> | 2009-12-17 16:05:28 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-17 21:54:28 -0800 |
commit | 63b76948e1d211ad4a95c3a9c7a0087fe6a1e371 (patch) | |
tree | 23704d46ec221d01982f24e4103b94a3c72674fc | |
parent | 527b9d704d929a2fff2f9bf1c5e2856725c1416d (diff) | |
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api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index 743814924..a0e0f850f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs. strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind: -. The `buf` member is never NULL, so you it can be used in any usual C +. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by `strbuf_init()` or by `= STRBUF_INIT` before the invariants, though. + @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Data structures * `struct strbuf` -This is string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to +This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to the string itself. @@ -253,3 +253,9 @@ same behaviour as well. comments are considered contents to be removed or not. `launch_editor`:: + + Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer + with the file's contents upon the user completing their editing. The + third argument can be used to set the environment which the editor is + run in. If the buffer is NULL the editor is launched as usual but the + file's contents are not read into the buffer upon completion. |